Configure Winamp to display correctly Unicode text

First, make sure you have the latest version of Winamp. Then replace the font of your Winamp skin with a unicode one. Go to Winamp > Preferences (Ctrl+P) > Playlist, and Uncheck “Use skin or language pack font”. Then select an appropriate font from the drop-down menu, eg. Arial Unicode MS.

Unicode characters need to be entered into the ID3v2 tag (ID3v1 does NOT support Unicode). Though also note that many external/older mp3 cd & portable players do not support Unicode ID3v2 tags. So you may want to bear this in mind if you also plan on using your MP3’s with any such players (if the external/portable mp3 player doesn’t support Unicode ID3v2 tags, then it will just display weird jibberish/square type characters instead).